Plot line segments (e.g. n-th roots on unit circle ) in polar projection

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Question:

  1. How to plot n-th roots on the unit circle in polar projection in Julia? Is this the intended/natural way to do it, or is there any better/lighter-weight way than the following?

  2. How to plot “π/6” instead of the value of θ in plot title and in annotations?

# Plot line segment (e.g. n-th roots on unit circle) in polar prejection
using Plots; gr()

# set step size θ
θ = π/6

# plot points at angle θ at step size π/6 from 0 to 2π, points on the circle NOT to be beconnected, a way to do that is
# plot one root at a time as a segment with first end point at orign [0,0], and second end point at [i*π/6,1].

b1=Float64[1:2;].-1.0

# Q(3): how to plot "π/6" instead of the value of θ in plot title and in annotations?
plt = plot(proj=:polar, m=0, title="polar projection step size $θ")
for i in 1:Int64(2π/θ)
    # with marker point size m=5
    plot!(plt, 0:i*θ:i*θ, b1, m=5, annotations=(b1[2]*cos(i*θ), b1[2]*sin(i*θ), text("$i π/6", :left)))
end

# return the plot object, won't display without this
plt

# plotted graph is attached below

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I’ve edited your post to make it considerably less shouty.

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Thank you very much for letting me know this. I was wondering how to do it, but wasn’t patient enough to figure out.

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The for loop returns nothing. You need to return the plot object.

Another way is to start off with p = plot()
and then put

p

as the last line in order to return that object.

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Thank you very much. Worked with your suggestion. Tried the code with plot object plt in the plot! and without, it didn’t change the outcome - I figured it was because plot! made the system to look for the most recent plot object to modify on.

plt = plot(proj=:polar, m=0, title="polar projection step size $θ")
for i in 1:Int64(2π/θ)
    # with marker point size m=5
    plot!(plt, 0:i*π/6:i*π/6, b1, m=5, annotations=(b1[2]*cos(i*π/6), b1[2]*sin(i*π/6), text("$i π/6", :left)))
end
plt
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